@article{kelm_2016, title={The Quest for Permanence and Impermanence: A Comparison of Traditional and Social Media Photo Albums}, abstractNote={This article examines challenges in preserving and providing access to photo albums, both physical and digital. These formats share many similarities in that they are a branch of personal records that have not been treated with deserved seriousness by traditional archival theory, rely extensively on original order to communicate meaning, and are problematic because they both involve some degree of performance that requires recognition and interpretation. These formats differ in that, while physical albums are usually static unless the order of photos are tampered with, digital albums, specifically social media albums, accumulate valuable meaning from their dynamic nature. Article The personal photograph album has always lived on the blurry boundary between public and private. Ever since inventor Joseph Nicéphone Niépce succeeded in the first quest for permanence , creating the first known photo in 1826 in a process he called heliography, human beings have documented their lives for themselves and for posterity in photographs-from the everyday snapshot to the more formal memento of a major event. Mette Sandbye identifies four major leaps in family photography: the release of the Brownie box camera and roll film by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1888, which made reproducing photos easy for the everyday person; the desire for soldiers and their families to be photographed together during World War I; the introduction of colour film and cheap cameras in the 1960s; and, today, the sharing of personal photos}, author={Kelm}, year={2016} }